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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ea8c9cf | To put my explanation in its boldest and most surprising form: bad news is manmade, top-down, purposed stuff, imposed on history. Good news is accidental, unplanned, emergent stuff that gradually evolves. The things that go well are largely unintended; the things that go badly are largely intended. | Matt Ridley | ||
| 89fd29b | Yet the evidence, from twin studies, from the children of immigrants and from adoption studies, is now staring us in the face: people get their personalities from their genes and from their peers, not from their parents. | Matt Ridley | ||
| edf9811 | Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped. | Kim Newman | ||
| 52fd9d1 | Somehow, the notion that Professor Moriarty had parents - might have been a child - never sat right. A viper is a snake straight from the egg. I couldn't help but picture little Jamie as a balding midget in a sailor suit, spying Cook and the baker's boy rolling in the flour on the kitchen table through his toy telescope, and blackmailing them for extra buns. | viper | Kim Newman | |
| 5477550 | I've created a monster" "No you just released one." | Marta Acosta | ||
| 03cdd3a | Rehv cleared his throat. "What book is that?" The Moor looked up, his almond-shaped eyes focusing with a sharpness Rehv could have done without. "You're awake." "What book?" "It's The Shadow Death Lexicon." "Light reading. And here I thought you were a Candace Bushnell fan." -- | trez | J.R. Ward | |
| 6a1de1d | The lack of effective and charismatic leaders always forced the Muslim youth to choose the wrong role models. | S. Hussain Zaidi | ||
| 07f9a77 | We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact. Hjalmar Soderberg, Doktor Glas, 1905 | Åsne Seierstad | ||
| 51eb53b | Does it ever occur to you not to sleep with women?" "No," Riley said." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 192bfb3 | Why are you offering me ten thousand dollars a month for babysitting? You didn't pay the nannies that. It's ridiculous. For ten thousand a month, you should not only get child care, you should get your house cleaned, your laundry done, your tires rotated, and if I were you, I'd insist on nightly blow jobs. Did you think I wouldn't notice that you're still trying to keep your thumb on me? | blow-job child-care nanny | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 879c3cf | What about the check?" Suze said. "Pay it," he called back. "This is your party." "I don't like him," Suze said to Margie. Margie slid out of the booth. "Think of him as a growth experience." "Oh, good, I've been wanting one of those," Suze said and tossed a twenty on the table. It was too much, but she was in a hurry to steal a dog." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| ddea10a | He picked up the biscuit box and said, "Come on, Marlene. Back into hiding in case somebody comes looking for you, although only God knows why anybody would." "Marlene?" Nell said. "I'm not calling anything SugarPie," Riley said. "That's obscene." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| cab4389 | He won't say no, but who cares if he does? Do it. Hell, guys go through this every time they make a move on a woman, and none of them has died yet. In many cases, that is, of course, unfortunate, but rejection is definitely not lethal. Go get him. | dating death die rejection | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 2f4aee6 | Sorry. I forgot your lust for small talk. And how have you been in the fourteen hours since we last spoke, eight of which you were sleeping? | humor | Jennifer Crusie | |
| b0b97a7 | I was raised to be charming, not sincere. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| b498563 | Quinn talked with her entire body: arms, eyes, shoulders, mouth. She was performance art, so alive that sometimes he argued with her just so he could watch her flush and gesture. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 6546a45 | I'm a feminist," Quinn said. "We get irrational urges." | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 444fb2c | The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further. | cynical lies life lying rule rules | Jennifer Crusie | |
| 16cce18 | I even yelled at you last night." Phin eased up. "For which I apologize." "It was kind of nice," Sophie said. "At least you know I was there." "Oh hell, Spohie, I always know you're there." Phin rolled twords her on one hip, and Sophie felt felt a flare of hope, but he was just digging something out of his back pocket. "Here." He weld out an emerald-cut diamond ring the size of her head. "Marry me, Julie Ann. Ruin the rest of my life." "Hel.. | Jennifer Crusie | ||
| 1c28b82 | At eleven, Kate woke Jake up when she went searching in the cooler for juice. "You know, you used to be peaceful," he grumbled. "I can't believe you were ever married." Kate said, as she cracked the can open. "What did you do, make her stand in the corner all the time?" | marriage men-and-women | Jennifer Crusie | |
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| 73d75a6 | When both she and I had to deal with our respective demons, my sister saw the darkness as being within and part of herself, the family and the world. I, instead, saw it as a stranger; however lodged within my mind and soul the darkness became, it almost always seemed an outside force that was at war with my natural self. | anxiety depression kay-redfield-jamison mental-illness | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 4e691ea | kbrt bsr`@ khll tlk lshhwr, km yjb `ly lshkhS ldhy yfqd dhth, w ykwn qryb hkdh mn lmwt w mn lHfr@ l'khyr@ | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| e404ad3 | Grief said C.S. Lewis is like "a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape." This is so. The lessons that come from grief come from its unexpected moves, from its shifting views of what had gone before and what is yet to come. Pain brought so often into one's consciousness cannot maintain the same capacity to wound. Grief, however creates strange sensitivity. The world is too intense to tolerate: a veil, a drink, anot.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 46928c0 | Like my father, I looked up rather more than I looked out. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 92ab2ce | He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| e6ad656 | I occasionally laugh and tell him that his imperturbability is worth three hundred milligrams of lithium a day to me, and it is probably true. | funny lithium | Kay Redfield Jamison | |
| 26ad272 | Others, the subject of this book, are likewise privy to their unconscious streams of thought, but they must contend with unusually tumultuous and unpredictable emotions as well. The integration of these deeper, truly irrational sources with more logical processes can be a tortuous task, but, if successful, the resulting work often bears a unique stamp, a "touch of fire," for what it has been through." | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 445a208 | I have become fundamentally and deeply skeptical that anyone who does not have this illness can truly understand it. And, ultimately, it is probably unreasonable to expect the kind of acceptance of it that one so desperately desires. It is not an illness that lends itself to easy empathy. Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather th.. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 64ec6ae | Moods are by nature compelling, contagious, and profoundly interpersonal, and disorders of mood alter the perceptions and behaviors not only of those who have them but also of those who are related or closely associated. Manic-depressive illness--marked as it is by extraordinary and confusing fluctuations in mood, personality, thinking, and behavior--inevitably has powerful and often painful effects on relationships. | Kay Redfield Jamison | ||
| 83b3979 | There is no such thing as redemption, my friend. There is right, there is wrong, and there are a million shades of color between the two. Once you've done wrong, it is always with you. You just have to try and be better. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 0c7e1c6 | All data leaves a trail. The search for data leaves a trail. The erasure of data leaves a trail. The absence of data, under the right circumstances, can leave the clearest trail of all. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 829fa9e | The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be. The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in. Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses. It is a ware that can never truly be won... but one we dare not lose. | C.S. Friedman | ||
| 1b16c6f | Love overcame reason...I had rather beg my bread with him than to be the greatest queen christened. | mary-boleyn | Carolyn Meyer | |
| ee2559f | At its core, comedy is an act of rebellion. Evidence shows that compared to the norms in the population, comedians tend to be more original and rebellious--and the higher they score on these dimensions, the more professional success they attain. After | Adam M. Grant | ||
| c85a2de | highly successful people have three things in common: motivation, ability, and opportunity. If we want to succeed, we need a combination of hard work, talent, and luck. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 240e7be | Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth. | Andre Dubus | ||
| 22c2a87 | There were three of these women, separated by short intervals of pain, remorse, and despair. When he and the last one had their final quarrel - she threw the breadboard - he was nearly fifty-five, and he gave up on love, save the memory of it. Always his aim had been marriage. He had never entered what he considered to be an affair, something whose end was an understood condition of its beginning. But he had loved and wanted for the rest of.. | Andre Dubus | ||
| b3179aa | Love is just a word we use to describe what boils down to a selfish and temporary state of happiness. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 651b345 | Apparently, the world was perfect in 1958. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 462d6d5 | I, Deanna Lambert, belong to no one and no one belongs to me. I don't know what to do. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 6517664 | I don't want these memories to become slippery, to disapper into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick- even the bad ones-so I repeat them often. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 8dd1aab | The girl I am now, girl--she survived. I just needed a little help getting here. | Donna Freitas | ||
| d1fc2a2 | I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had maintained, even exaggerated, this important flexibility of our primate forebears, while most mammals had sacrificed it in specializing their digits. Carnivores run, stab, and scratch. My cat may manipulate me psychologically, but he'll never type or play the piano. | cat evolution panda science thumb | Stephen Jay Gould |